Clothes-hanger



J. E. STAGL. CLOTHES HANGER,

APPLICATION FILED APR. I2, 1920. V 1,400,633. Patented Dec. 20, 1921. Y

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J. E. STAGL.

CLOTHES HANGER.

APPLICATION HLED APR. 12, 1920,

Patented Dec. 20, 1921.

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JOSEPH E, STAGL, F BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

CLOTHES-HANGER.

Application filed April 12, 1920. Serial No. 373,446.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, JosnrH E. Swen, a citizen of the United States, residing at 724 Quincy street, Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Clothes-Hanger, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to apparatus for extending clothes lines and the like.

Some of the objects of the present invention are: to produce an apparatus as characterized which facilitates the hanging of clothes upon a line through a window opening; to include in the apparatus a supporting)" bracket which may be swung into and out of a room through. a window opening for the convenient hanging of the clothes upon a line and their removal therefrom; to provide means at a fixed and convenient position with which to effect the movement of said supporting' bracket; to employ an endless rope or line and means for supporting the rope or line so that the same may be moved re ardless of the position of the said supporting; bracket; to employ means supported by the said bracket for takin up and letting out the rope or the line to allow the said bracket to be swung from one position to another. With these and other objects in view the invention resides in the 1 articular provision, construction and opera tion of parts hereinafter more fully described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is an elevation of the apparatus of the present invention as it is applied at a window opening'the supporting bracket bein shown as extending across the window opening; on the outside of a dwelling.

2 is a horizontal sectional view taken on the line 2-2, Fig. 1.

F a. 7% is a vertical sectional view taken on the hue 3-3, Fig. 1.

l 4.- is a detail vertical sectional view taken on the line 4-4, Fig. 1.

Fig. 5 is a detail horizontal sectional view taken on the line 5-5, Fig. 1.

Fig. 6 is a detail horizontal sectional view taken on the line 6-6, Fig. 3.

Fig. 7 is a detail view illustrating the block arranged on the rope or clothes line for the attachment of the rope or clothes line in loop form at a point remote from the supporting bracket forming a part of the apparatus.

Referring now more particularly to the several views of the drawings for all of the details, it will be manifest that, the apparatus of the present invention includes an attaching unit 1 with which the apparatus as whole is secured fixedly in place at a window opening, and a supporting bracket 2 which is supported for movement by said unit 1 upon a shaft 3 mounted for rotation in bearing lugs 6 and ,7. The shaft 3 has a head at the top thereof and a key 4: carried by said shaft is disposed in a key-way or slot 5 in an extension of the bracket it follows that upon movement of the shaft 3 the bracket 2 will be moved accordingly. lv'lovement of the shaft 3 is eifected by the employmentof a gear 9 attached to the lower end of said shaft, and a worm-gear 10 attached to a shaft 12 mounted for rotation in th part 11 of the unit 1. The shaft 12 has attached thereto a manipulator 13 to turn it. The extension 8 of the bracket 2 receives the shaft 3, and said extension rests on a washer on the part 11 so as to make easy the turning or swinging of said bracket.

it is within the present invention to employ a clothes line or the like 29 which is to be supported in a manner so as to be capable of being taken up or let out in the movement of the bracket 2, and allowing the movement of the said line 29 regardless of the position of the bracket 2 which may be brought into a room or which may be moved to a position outside of or without the room.

in order to support the line 29 so that the same may be taken up or let out in the movement of the bracket 2, the line is made endless and it carries a block having a pulley 28-8 for the attachment of the line at a point remote from its points of connection with means to be described carried by the bracket 2. A block 23 is arranged for movement on the bracket 2 and the said block has operatively attached thereto pulleys 28-2, 28-4- and 283-6. Pulleys 28-1 and 28-7 are arranged for rotation on a shaft 30 and they are held in spaced relation by a member 31. Looking at Fig. 1 it will be apparent that the line 29 extends from the pulley 28-8 to the pulley 28-1 to the pulley 28-2, thence over the pulley 28-3, thence over the pulley 28-4, thence over the pulley 28-5, thence over the pulley 28-6 to the pulley 28-7 and back over the pulley 28-8. It will be manifest that the pulleys 28-3 and 28-5, and the pulleys 28-1 and 28-7 are relatively fixed with respect to each other and with respect to the pulleys 28-2, 28-4 and 28-6. It follows that the rope 29 may be moved about all of the pulleys regardless of the position of the bracket 2;

In order that the bracket 2 may be allowed to swing from one position to another there is provided a means Pi which has connection to the block 23 and serves to allow the line 29th be taken up as the bracket a is swung outwardly to the position shown in Figs. 1. and 2, and to let out the line 29 when the bracket 2 is being swung to a position in which the same willbe within a room. The means A includes rotatable shalt which is carried by the bracket. A gear 15 is tached to the shaft i l l the said gear meshes with a worm-gear l6 attached to a shaft 18 supported for rotation by plates l7, 17'. A manipulator i9 is attached to the shatt'lS and serves for the tirninr of the shaft 18. ,A flexible elenent has one end thereof connected to the clock at 2%, and the opposite end thereof is wranned about the shaft let. 7 over pulleys 21. and 22. The pulleys-28% and 2&6 move between guide ar ranged in pairs and forming part oti' th bracket 2 to prevent lateral di the block A lug 26 i'orrmng a part or the block 23 moves between guides 27 form ing a part 0-5 the bracket 2 to guiue the block V in its horizontal movei'nent From the toregoin it will be manifest n that, upon manipulating the manipulator is the bracket 2 may be swung into a room so that the portions of the line 29 beyond the bracket may be readily accessible for hanging clothes thereon or for the removal thereof therefrom; the bracket may be swung to a position without the room through the window opening so that the lower window sash may be moved to a closed positi the manipulation of the manipulator 19 will allow the block 23 to move in one direction to let out the line 29 as the bracket is moved eluding a movable pulley-block and fi.

1 ,aoaess ported bracket an endless line, means cluding a movable pulley-block and fixedly arranged pulleys on said bracket for taking up and letting out the said line, a pulley block on said line adapted to be attached to a fixed support, and means 011 said braclret for effecting the movement of said first named pulley-block.

3. Apparatus including a movably supported bracket, an endless rope means inarranged pulley on said bracket ta ing up and letting out said rope, a pulley-block on said rope adapted to be attached to a fixed support, means for ellectiag the mov ment of said bracket and means for moving said first named pulley-block.

1 Apparatus includingan attachinp unit a supporting bracket arranger l tor move inent'on said unit, means includi g movable pulley-block and fixedly arranged pulleys on said bracket for taking up and. for letting out an endless flexible element, a pulley-block carried by the flexible element- .ada ted to be attached to a fixed suwor;

means for eilecting the move nt oi? the bracket including a manipula ng member on the said unit, and means for ei'lecting; the movement of the first named pulley-blocl-z JOSEPH E. STAGL. 

